On Wednesday we are going to have a mix of building WNW windswell and some steady but smaller WNW swell (290-300+). The swell periods are going to be holding right around 7-8 seconds for the windswell and more like 10-13 seconds for the medium period energy. Neither one is all that good for surf shape, except at select beaches that generally do better on the windswell-type swells. The swell angle 290+ also is a bit to northwesty for most SoCal spots...particularly at the shorter swell periods where the swell doesn’t wrap into spots all that well.
Sooooo...thanks to the rather ho-hum swell mix...I am looking for most exposed WNW-NW facing spots to see surf in the chest-shoulder high range. It will be rather gutless and stacked up...but if the tide is low and the sandbars are decent you might be able to string together a couple of sections.
The Standout NW facing spots, mostly in Ventura and San Diego, will have some shoulder-head high sets...with maybe a rare lumpy head high+ set sneaking through at times. Those regions will have similar shape issues to the average spots but with a little more energy trying to improve things. Again I don’t think it will be worth driving all that far but if you are within a reasonable distance I would still give it a check.
Winds look similar to Tuesday...sort of NW’erly in the Ventura and Santa Barbara, more variable through LA County (particularly up around North County/Santa Monica), and then light Southerly in OC and SD. If you have a WNW facing spot with high cliffs, kelp, or something else to break the wind a bit that would probably be your best bet.
Here are the tides...have a safe Tequila Day!
02:28AM LDT -0.1 L
08:22AM LDT 3.9 H
01:58PM LDT 1.0 L
08:09PM LDT 5.7 H
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